This Friday on The Lone Gunmen EP 5:Three Men and a Smoking Diaper

Another good offering although I was side tracked while viewing it. 5 episodes in and not a legitimate clunker in the bunch. Some established things,
1. The humor is here to stay, wasn't sure at first but it is not just a one or two show theme. I like it and it's made the show enjoyable.
2. Yves will be showing up every episode in some form or another. Don't have a problem with this but she should just join up with them instead of coming up with story lines every show to involve her.
3. Jimmy Bond is no secret genius, just a naive stumbling guy but enjoyable to watch and is good comic relief.

I thought the opening sequence was very funny, the guys going after the senator and hijacking the news feed truck was priceless. The sequence in the doctors office was way over the top but I have come to expect this and over look it. The senator was my old buddy from boston legal...he was hoot. The sequence with the baby was amusing but a little to cliche for me, I also find it hard to believe there wouldn't be a little more fuss over a missing child even if it was illegitimate.
As i said i was side tracked while watching...who put the rx number on the windshield of the van did we ever find out?
Any way all in all a good episode I give it a 6 on the TLG scale.

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I like the comment referring his friend at the FBI had to be Fox Mulder. Was this the first episode where Eve was a mere participant and not using the boys for her own gain? The Senator character kind of reminded me of Senator E must be because they were both from the South. Not to mention his trouble with a love child. The story was a little weak this time or was it just me. A few interesting gags with baby but other than this it wasn't as good as I hoped. Going to give this weeks presentation a four on the GM scale

I'm trying to keep my interest up. The episode has some good moments but then it can let you down.
I enjoyed the hijacking of the news mans headset. Very well done.
The doctors office was also well done but a little too much on actually going through with the procedure since the nurse caught Frohike with the water bottle.
The Senator seems to be a combination of Senator E and Slick Willy. Womanizing, partying, even playing the saxophone. The resemblance to Edwards and the love child was great. I guess the writers were again successful in predicting the future. But this one was probably not too difficult.
Some of the things I had issue with were:
The baby was really left alone in the middle of the floor of the love-shack?
No one is concerned over the missing baby?
Jimmy goes from licking envelopes to being needed to help the Senator?
How did the senator sober up? I was guessing that they were going to ask Jimmy to stand in for the senator.
Jimmy can keep the orders straight for 20+ cups of custom coffees but then screws up the id of the cup in question?
I'll give it a 4. The writers seem to have a good idea for the stories but they seem to put them together sloppily.

This episode is very much a product of its time - in 2001, right after the Clinton impeachment, it includes a politician very much like him and asks if personal behavior has any bearing on whether he's a good leader.

I should not be surprised that, ultimately, the writers give a pass to the philandering senator (and, by proxy, Clinton). However, it seems out of character for the Gunmen to fall for his charms in the end - especially straight-as-an-arrow Byers. Then again, he also idolizes JFK.

(Side note: "Jefferson" is, of course, Clinton's middle name - and naming the baby "William Jefferson" was a clincher.)

Some good questions already brought up, the biggest being: How did Jimmy go from moron volunteer to guy who helps the drunk senator sober up? If this is a common occurrence (which it seemed to be), then they'd have staffers/bodyguards who'd do this job - someone they knew would keep quiet, instead of rolling the dice on whether Jimmy would. Unless somehow that was part of Jock's plan to expose the whole thing, because he knew who Jimmy was ...?

The other good question: Who left the baby alone? And why?

This episode was pretty good, but it gets points taken off for relying too much on fart/wee wee/poop jokes. C'mon, writers, you can do better than that!